To spend £700 a year on kitchen roll?

[Stellenbosch]

Yes, I fucking am?!

WTF, how can I cut down on usage? For my bank balance and the environment! .

In my defence I do have a toddler and a rather large family, but still, go through £2 a day worth of the stuff!

I hate dish cloths, they seem so inefficient and full of bacteria!

Help?! Hints?! Tips?!

2 rolls a day is a ridiculous amount with one toddler at home.

You can get 2 packs of kitchen roll for £1.25 so you are buying the expensive stuff.

Also you can use tea towels and throw them in the wash with dirty clothes.

Blue roll is good bulk buy.

Maybe get out a bit more so you're not at home creating all the mess?

I’ve not used Who Gives A Crap paper towels. I do use their toilet paper though.
Are their paper towels wrong enough? I find that cheap kitchen roll is a false economy.

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We only use kitchen roll to soak up fat after we've fried something, so it doesn't go down the drain when we wash up.

What's wrong with a sponge? Or a mop? Or...loads of other good things that people have suggested here?

My little one is not at highchair/weaning age yet but when he is I'll be keeping all the broadsheets we read at the weekend and spreading sheets from it under the highchair whenever he eats. That way anything that lands on the floor can just be balled up and put in the bin.

Oh my fucking god. I thought 1 roll a.month was too much and I was thinking of cutting it out of our lives altogether!

Seriously, use a cloth.

I do use kitchen roll but generally only for quick spillage mopping when cooking or extra manky jobs like cat litter trays.

I have a hierarchy of cloths for most cleaning: nice microfibres ones for dusting etc; old flannelette sheets cut up for polishing; dishcloths for kitchen use which are chucked in the washing machine at the end of the day, then when they are getting a bit past it, I cut the corner off (so I don’t get mixed up) and they become bathroom and floor cloths. And I am still using cloth nappies from nearly 15 years ago for washing the floor and car!

Are their paper towels wrong enough?
yes they are very very wrong :)

And also really strong - they are made from bamboo and are very strong and absorbent & a good size. You can try out a roll with your next loo roll order. They did seem a bit pricey but they last so much longer than the supermarket rolls so it works out OK.

All that kitchen towel going into landfill.....

You need e-cloths in your life. A lot of them by the sound of it.

£700 a year on kitchen roll clearly falls into the 'more money than sense' category.

Use a washable cloth, for heaven's sake. I do a hot wash every 2-3 weeks with all the cloths and tea towels.

Well I was only just getting over the discovery that there are people out there who can't make a bottle of shower gel last a week and now I discover this.

I am fascinated. Do you buy it daily, weekly or in bulk? Do you get it delivered or do you bring it all home from the shop yourself?

Even a week's supply of seven twin packs will make a great pile of the stuff by itself. Maybe that's what you need? An intervention where someone puts 365 twin packs of kitchen roll together in a great pile so you can see what a single year's worth of your kitchen roll usage looks like.

I use tons of kitchen roll but could never get through 2 rolls a day. I use it to wipe up spills in the kitchen, to stop plates on trays sliding around ( we eat meals on a tray most days) instead of tissues for blowing my nose, it doesn't make my nose sore like tissues, I wipe round my toilet with kitchen roll, it's more hygienic than using a cloth, I keep a roll in the car as my DS suffers from nosebleeds & it's more absorbent than toilet roll or tissues. I could probably use a lot less but it saves on washing loads of different cloths, I buy the super absorbent 3 ply kitchen roll, not the fancy stuff with patterns printed on it.

Well I was only just getting over the discovery that there are people out there who can't make a bottle of shower gel last a week

Say what! Who are these crazy wasters? Were they never taught about the environment?

I used to go through kitchen roll like mad. Now I'm on Team cheap flannels / old muslins / old bibs / cloths. I have a whole drawer full, change them every day and have enough at the end of the week to stick them in the wash with my towels and bedding.

Would love a stack of really absorbent clothes that just get chucked in the wash straight away.

This is what we use. I cut up a bunch of old towels into small hand size pieces - but you can buy them.

Grab one out of drawer, wet it/use it, toss in a tub that sits next to washing machine (along with baby bibs, dusters etc). Any time anyone puts a wash on they add in the tub stuff.

Saves money, saves the environment, any is easier to use than a paper towel that falls apart...

Microfibre cloths aren't great for the environment, unfortunately.

Those eco egg bamboo towels look great, but are they a PITA once you've used them and they're off the roll? I already have a bulging Kitchen Drawer of Nightmares.

Slightly wasteful isn’t it? I buy cheap cloths and wash regularly, 4 kids, flannel for sticky fingers and faces new one daily (one for each when they were little) I spend £3 a fortnight on kitchen roll 2 pack so one roll per week.

Do you guys not have compost bins? Our used kitchen roll goes in there.

Not 2 rolls a day, mind

I use micro fibre clothes for wiping things down and anything that needs absorbency I'm now using the muslins I had when the kids were little and don't need anymore. Work great and all go through the wash. As long as they're not left ages the don't need a hot wash as they not all manky

Sounds like an insane amount, but my ex-cleaner used to use an entire roll in 2 hours when she cleaned.

I wouldn't mind but it was Regina Blitz and that shit's pricy.

Well I was only just getting over the discovery that there are people out there who can't make a bottle of shower gel last a week and now I discover this.

Was just about to reference that thread!

Between this, the people who refuse to consider not washing their clothes at anything less than 60 degrees and the recent thread on how much bleach people use, it makes those low energy lightbulbs seem a bit pointless doesn’t it?

OP, just buy some micro fibre cloths from Primark and some multisurface cleaner, before you’re responsible for deforresting the Amazon on your own!

I save my manky cloths in a lidded bin for a bi-weekly hot wash. And clean ones live in an IKEA bag dispenser.

I’ll use ten a day some days but I use no paper or wipes.

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It’s appalling in this day and age, when climate change is so talked about, that you feel able to go through 2 rolls of kitchen towel per day. If you’re doing that, what other wastefulness are you indulging in? Do you let the tap run while you brush your teeth? Fill the bath full? Use plastic straws and plastic cutlery or disposable cups? Leave the car engine running unnecessarily? Have the heating on when windows are open? Run the tumble dryer in the summer? Waste food? I could go on...

You need a sense of responsibility. Your actions have consequences. The money aspect is your private concern, but the environmental impact is everybody’s. Such wastefulness with natural resources is screamingly selfish.

(And yes industry is a far bigger problem, but I’m assuming you can’t influence that. We should all be doing what we can).

How's the weather up there on your high horse, 7salmonswimming?

Ok, so, IF I can convert to some
sort of cloth... what do people use at meal times for napkins?

(And, yes, to everyone, I do know how outrageous it is!)

And I buy it two or three times a week and I did try buying in bulk but it did block up the kitchen/utility room!